April 2012 Blog Posts (10)

Hey everybody, Happy New Year!, Well it seems that I am starting this year with a bang and hopefully you will have the best year ever and all your dreams come true! If you follow my blog, by now you know that I wait tables for a living. According to my coworkers, I am what you call a "Career Waitress", which is code for " I didn't go to college, I like having cash on me at all times and now this is the only…

For those of you who are unfamiliar with me, I'm DriveThruGuy and I run a blog called Life In The Drive Thru where I share stories about my daily trials in the drive thru. There are a couple of things you should know about that last sentence...

I am a reasonable human being who has accepted that there are certain vagaries of this business that one must sooner or later learn to live with if he is to avoid being driven certifiably insane. Obvious examples would be the occasional idiot who undertips, the elderly four-top who just can't get enough of that delicious bread, and small children who enjoy the hell out of dropping silverware on the floor (my limit…

So it's Friday night and our restaurant is fortunately busy as usual. The dining room and bar tables are usually filled by 5:30 pm and from that point untill about 9:30 we're on a wait. We have a lot of regular customers who come in, know they're going to have to wait and happily get a cocktail at the bar or sit in the waiting area while I put their name on the wait list. It would be amazing (although not…

I used to serve the lunch shift at a restaurant right across the street from a hospital. We offered the hospital employees 20% off so needless to say many of them would come in to eat. The problem is that a lot of times the people who take advantage of these types of discounts are not the ideal customers to serve, and this was no exception.…

I always say that I will write a book on all the funny moments I have experienced with customers...and I'm not talking about their funny or not so funny jokes, or their outfits, or the stupid things I have done in front of them. I am talking about the daily moments when I realize that not everyone has had to experience reality. Let's start today with a few examples:…

I have always wondered if being raised under different circumstances would have shaped me into something more refined. You know, oil paintings and Persian rugs and a closet brimming with velvet? But then I remember that I…

Hi it’s Ivonne again, ranting about restaurant life and the many facets of this necessary but often ignored thing called serving tables. Now when I started this job in the US, I became aware of the way people of color, mainly African American and Latinos; are viewed and treated in the restaurant industry.